Publications by authors named "Mary Dale Peterson"
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- * This shortage impacts healthcare facilities by increasing costs, contributing to clinician burnout, disrupting surgery schedules, and threatening the education of future anesthesiologists.
- * Solutions require a comprehensive approach that includes boosting training positions, harnessing new technologies, and addressing financial policies to improve capacity and retention in the anesthesia workforce.
Background: The 1980s to 1990s saw many health systems in the United States enter and exit the insurance market in the form of provider-sponsored health plans (PSHPs). Reforms and value-based reimbursement methods have stimulated health care organizations to reconsider PSHP as a logical strategy.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine market and organizational factors associated with PSHP ownership and motivations for engaging in PSHP after health care reforms.
Background: Anesthesiology is among the medical specialties expected to have physician shortage. With little known about older anesthesiologists' work effort and retirement decision making, the American Society of Anesthesiologists participated in a 2006 national survey of physicians aged 50-79 yr.
Methods: Samples of anesthesiologists and other specialists completed a survey of work activities, professional satisfaction, self-defined health and financial status, retirement plans and perspectives, and demographics.
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